Gena Rowlands
- Acting
- June 19, 1930 · Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- August 14, 2024
Biography
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977).
Known for
Filmography
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age · Self
- Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film · Self
- Peter Falk versus Columbo · Self
- Bette Davis: Larger Than Life · Self
- Unfortunate Circumstances · Dr. Cohen
- Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks · Lily Harrison
- Yellow · Mimi
- Watching Gena Rowlands · Self
- Parts Per Billion · Esther
- Olive · Tess M Powell
- Faces · Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
- Cannes: All Access · Self
- Broken English · Vivien Wilder-Mann
- What If God Were the Sun? · Melissa Eisenbloom
- Paris Je T'aime · Gena (Quartier Latin), Writer
- Edge of Outside · Self
- Stardust: The Bette Davis Story · Self
- The Skeleton Key · Violet Devereaux
- Numb3rs · Erika Hellman
- The Notebook · Older Allie
- The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie · Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
- Taking Lives · Mrs. Rebecca Asher
- Making 'Faces' · Self
- NCIS · Joann Fielding
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · Self
- Charms for the Easy Life · Charlie Kate
- Monk · Marge Johnson
- Heart of the Festival · Self
- Hysterical Blindness · Virginia Miller
- Wild Iris · Minnie Brinn
- A Constant Forge · Self
- Light Keeps Me Company · Self
- The Color of Love: Jacey's Story · Georgia Porter
- The Weekend · Laura Ponti
- All About My Mother · In Memory Of
- Playing by Heart · Hannah
- Grace & Glorie · Grace Stiles
- The Mighty · Gram
- Hope Floats · Ramona Calvert
- 1001 Nights · Narrator (Voice)
- Paulie · Ivy
- Best Friends for Life · Mrs. Harriet Cahill
- She's So Lovely · Miss Green
- The View · Self
- Unhook the Stars · Mildred
- E! True Hollywood Story · Self
- John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All · Self
- The Neon Bible · Mae Morgan
- Something to Talk About · Georgia King
- Parallel Lives · Francie Pomerantz
- Anything for John · Self
- Silent Cries · Peggy Sutherland
- Crazy in Love · Honora Swift
- Face of a Stranger · Pat Foster
- Night on Earth · Victoria Snelling
- Ted & Venus · Mrs. Turner
- Once Around · Marilyn Bella
- Hollywood Mavericks · Self
- Montana · Bess Guthrie
- Another Woman · Marion
- The Betty Ford Story · Betty Ford
- Light of Day · Janette Rasnick
- An Early Frost · Katherine Pierson
- Nederland C · Self
- I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work · Self
- Love Streams · Sarah Lawson
- Rapunzel · The Witch
- Thursday's Child · Victoria Alden
- Faerie Tale Theatre · Witch
- Tempest · Antonia
- Gloria · Gloria Swenson
- Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter · Abigail Mason
- The Brink's Job · Mary Pino
- A Question of Love · Linda Ray Guettner
- Opening Night · Myrtle Gordon
- Two-Minute Warning · Janet
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- A Woman Under the Influence · Mabel Longhetti
- Ghost Story · Kate Lucas
- Minnie and Moskowitz · Minnie Moore